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In a world of democracies, the most deserving basis of national differences is that the different states of the world should represent a form of moral specialisation within humanity. ↗

— Roberto Unger

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Let's not give the electoral process so much importance. We have to be cynical about it. Let's give importance to the real democracy that's constructed on a day-to-day basis. That's my hopeful perspective on it. ↗

— Gael Garcia Bernal

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The difficulty of looking at a system like natural selection if you have any sort of moral sense yourself, is almost what makes it beautiful. ↗

— Paul Bettany

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I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest. ↗

— Aneurin Bevan

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The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the morality of the judge. ↗

— Robert Bork

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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

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How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour ... If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth? ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#doctrine #ethics #law #morality #principles

So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone. ↗

— John Perry Barlow

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